His chief of staff swung into action on his behalf, interfacing, as they say now, with his counterparts in the Trudeau PMO. The chief of staff was Peter Harder, who has since vanished into the mists of the senior federal bureaucracy.
Son chef de cabinet est aussi entré en action, se chargeant des contacts avec ses homologues au cabinet du premier ministre Trudeau, dont le chef de cabinet était Peter Harder, qui a disparu depuis dans les hautes sphères de la bureaucratie fédérale.